today my mom is baking batch after batch of cookies for christmastime. chocolate chips. oatmeal raisins. mmm… chirstmas tastes gooood.
being home for christmas is also nice because i can sleep until something close to 1pm, and not have to feel guilty. what else am i supposed to do? my only agenda item today is “figure out something to do today”.
simple enough. i better go get started.
the rocketeer was . . . awesome, of course. i love that movie. and jennifer connely looks spectacular in it as she usually does when she wears that bright red lipstick, as also featured in the trailers for a beautiful mind which comes out soon . . . (this is me getting faint at the thought of her).
yes, i am girl-crazy. nice of you to notice.
from tonight’s readings from the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde:
“the only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”…haha. that’s great. oscar wilde must have been one fun guy to talk to.
disclaimer:girls are people too, blah blah blah…
beauty thing about weblogs . . . sometimes you get to meet (figuratively speaking) people from far away, for example people that live in toronto and know some french and can stop me wondering what the french say when someone sneezes. so for a two.points.collapsing/quid pro quo sponsored international culture lesson you can visit kate, who is very smart and also 100 times cooler than mme st. louis. at least i think that was the name of my junior high french teacher–it really has been a long time….
now i feel old. i will solve that by watching my new dvd of the rocketeer, which is adventurous and fantastical and will make me feel young and spirited. thank you so much shannon for the gift.
hey hey it’s thursday. i’m a day late with the song of the week:
this week it is from sunny day real estate, because i picked up diary recently and it’s good and this song is my favorite. maybe. it’s called song about an angel.
i was thinking i should pick something even vaguely christmas-related this week since jesus’s birthday is on tuesday, but christmas-related songs really aren’t very good, generally. so i figured the fact that this song has “angel” in the title was about as vaguely christmas-related as you can get, and therefore just the right amount related back to the holy holiday.
not that i’m a grump about christmas–i really love it. favorite christmas song, no contest: carol of the bells. but i’m just saying that christmas can’t take over everything. sometimes it’s not really appropriate to make things christmas-themed, i think. not that this is the ultimate example, but still: we saw one of those local, low-quality commercials on comedy central last night during the daily show for an area door outlet–our whatever you’d call it, it being a place you go to buy a door–that advertised their big holiday sale. why doors and holidays go together, i don’t know, but it made me laugh.
so maybe christmas doesn’t have to be in everything, but that’s not to say it isn’t in me. i’m excited. the egg nog is flowing freely (yum) and the presents from me to my friends have been opened, the presents from me to my family are under the tree waiting to be . . . and so on. i just have to catch it’s a wonderful life and the grinch (not the repellant jim carrey version, i’ll have you know) and then it’ll be official.
vanilla sky…different, but worth seeing. i dont’ want to spoil it though.
this is more discussable–i only paid 3.75 to see it. i felt like they were giving movie tickets away. i gave the lady four singles, and i got change back! this is something i like about the suburbs. i plan on taking full advantage of these drastically lower movie ticket prices by seeing at least a couple more flicks at the local AMC between 4 and 6 over the next week. and there’s almost no one in the theatres either.
do you ever read over something you just wrote and think you really must be the most uninteresting person you can think of?
yeah, me too.
i think i may go see vanilla sky this afternoon. i have nothing else to do and tom cruise is just so dreamy.
i should have put up a link to justin a while ago. he said something about not starting until the new year, but he lied. justin is into metal, he was my neighbor freshman year, and he’s from wisconsin. justin kicks ass.
mjarc reminded me of something else i can remark on. i too do not say “bless you” when people sneeze, and when people around me sneeze, i am always left feeling that they’re thinking to themselves “what a jerk, he’s right there, he heard me sneeze and didn’t say anything”. something else i dislike though is people saying it to me when i sneeze, because the custom is then to say thank you, i think. but i don’t want to be blessed in the first place, and i would really prefer, if it were socially acceptable, to turn to the person and say, “you know, you really don’t have to do that, i don’t go for that kind of stuff”. i think i remember my junior high french teacher telling us that french people say something after you sneeze that means “make a wish”. i wish i rememberd what that was, because at least that superstitious custom, although equally pointless and weird, has a fun spin to it instead of an “i’m saving your soul” one. i don’t want my soul to be saved, personally. i’d like to continue thinking that i have nothing that needs saving, and that i don’t need someone threatening retribution after i die to be a good person in life. and if i don’t say god bless you when you sneeze, that i’m not trying to be a bastard.
i had to go get my license renewed today. had to trade in the old trusty illinois drivers license from 1998 in exchange for a texas state drivers license (which apparently won’t be sent to this house for 4 to 6 weeks). now, lucky me, i’ll get to carry a little piece of texas around with me wherever i go…ugh. and i had to pay 24 damned dollars for this privilege, too. what did that 24 dollars pay for? i don’t understand. it’s a little piece of plastic with a picture and some type on it. i didn’t know i would end up relieved of so much money this afternoon. so it goes.
okay, i also encountered something i just now realized is a pet peeve of mine. since drivers licenses are no longer just hard-laminated pieces of paper like they used to be, that means you can’t actually sign them anymore. i’m sure you know already. so to sign your license, you get to sign on the little computerized screen thingy with a pen-that’s-not-a-pen, more like just a pen-shaped hard plastic thing. i hate signing on little screens. it never ever comes out looking anything like my signature. i’m pretty sure i forgot a letter in my own last name just through frustration of trying to “write” plastic on plastic instead of ballpoint on paper. of course, the total result is so illegible that it won’t matter because you can’t tell what it’s supposed to say anyway. and this will be the signature people compare to whenever i’m asked to sign something in stores and whatnot, so now i’m forever being judged by this terrible signature. awful system, awful. at least when you have to sign one of those things for ups or something, you never have to deal with it again.
right now i’m reading a collection of plays by oscar wilde. i just love his ability to write a conversation between a bunch of high-society hypocrites that’s terribly witty and fun to listen to but still means absolutely nothing. i think i will go enjoy that talent of his right now.
if you only see one movie this month, wait for royal tenenbaums. but ocean’s 11 is a very good movie too. i just got back from the theatre a few hours ago and that was one hip flick, let me tell ya. it was just so fun to watch, and so… cool. i also like how it didn’t lean too heavily on the star power of the many big names of any of the characters. all the characters, minor ones included, were a ton of fun to watch up on screen. i really liked that movie.
best line, i thought (not best in that i’m spoiling a great joke, best in that i just loved the way it sounded), delivered by the black british explosives expert as he’s “recruited” for the job by brad pitt: “it’ll be nice working with proper villains again”. you have to say it in the accent for it to be cool though.
oh, and driving was fine. i didn’t even almost get in any accidents or kill anyone. plus i finished my shopping and saw a slick movie. i wish i had a car all the time.
sooooo slooooooow….
but i persist. cannot let collapsing collapse just because i’m not on the university’s T1 line. oh no, i am dedicated.
what do you buy for your parents for christmas when they don’t really have anything you could clearly define as “interests”. i mean with me, ask me for a long list of music or film selections that i would love to have, and you’ve got a cake way to get me some gifts i would really love. but my parents, they aren’t into movies, or music, or really anything like that. so i get to just go out shopping i guess until something strikes my fancy. and you can imagine how fun that will be. i hope to eliminate some of the hassle by going out now in the middle of the afternoon on monday though, when hopefully the crazy shopping people will be at a reduced level. i am planning on packing some heat though in case things get sticky out there.
off i go then. hopefully i won’t get in a wreck, i don’t think i’ve driven at a car since last christmas since that was the last time i was here at home and i don’t have a car at school. but it should be just like riding a bike, only with more wheels, and far greater destructive potential. right? i’ll try not to kill anyone who doesn’t deserve it, don’t worry.
i don’t know why i’m so morbid today, i’ve been playing tony hawk instead of grand theft auto even. maybe it’s just being in texas that makes me want to kill, but since i don’t hunt or fish or commit hate crimes then i just imagine myself committing cartoonish acts of random violence. stop your worrying though, it’s all imaginary.
come on patrick, you’re the boy next door…
(guess the quote and you are a badass)
boy, blogger’s not so quick from the homestyle internet connection. school has ruined me i’m sure of it–i doubt any time i live on my own i’ll be able to go without high speed access. i’d probably pick paying for dsl over basic cable. or maybe a real telephone. tough call, i don’t really like talking on the phone very much…
but let’s not be too much a loser yet, there will be plenty of time in that in a week or so of being home and doing nothing but playing video games and sleeping.
i went to bed last night after an awful day following a sleep so short it didn’t really form a decent separation from the great day i had before it. that was at only 9:30 last night (and that’s central, which means i went to bed at 7:30 in the time zone i started the day in). but to balance out the night before’s 55 minutes of sleep, i slept for almost 14 hours just now. whew. that’ll give you a bit of a recharge. now i’m all revved up to go, but i have nothing to do. anyone want to play hide and seek with me?
my comfort this week is that at least there are a few movies that i can go see while i’m here to pass the time and get out of the house. still haven’t caught ocean’s 11 (but i will), vanilla sky (which you bet i will), lord of the rings (which i’ve been wanting to see since what, 1999 when they started talking about it?), and maybe harry potter, just to see what the fuss is about (and because i’m bored). oh, and if the royal tenenbaums starts showing close to here before i take off, i certainly wouldn’t mind seeing that again either. for sure.
time for breakfast. but add two hours to the time below here cause i’m in crazy central, so maybe it’s lunch. whatever man, i’m hungry.